'Very large' yoga gathering in breach of Covid-19 restrictions broken up in Stockport, with £10,000 fine issued

hereWatch the moment police stopped the protest on our Facebook page hereSpeaking on a microphone, Karen told those assembled she disagreed with the decision but said she had no choice but to comply. The Manchester Evening News was live-streaming the incident and our video shows Karen made clear the event was over after less than ten minutes.

direct to your inboxM.E.N. readers have reacted with fury after GMP dished out a £10,000 fine to an NHS worker who organised a protest over the government's one per cent pay offer Karen Reissmann, a mental health worker and Unison rep, was among those who turned up for the demonstration in St Peter's Square in Manchester city centre at midday on Sunday.

direct to your inboxIn 1819, there were an estimated 60,000 people in St Peter's Field when the cavalry was sent in to shut down an anti-poverty demonstration.More than two hundred years later, only a handful of protesters turned up in what is now St Peter's Square, but they also found themselves targeted by the authorities, albeit in very different circumstances.Karen Reissmann, a mental health worker in the NHS and Unison rep, wanted to showcase staff anger over the 1 per cent pay offer

direct to your inboxAn NHS worker who organised a protest over the government's 1 per cent pay offer in Manchester city centre has been fined £10,000. Karen Reissmann, a mental health worker and Unison rep, was among those who turned up for the demonstration in St Peter's Square at midday on Sunday.

Oldham -based Failsworth Street Patrol have been warned they risk 'straying into vigilantism' and could be putting themselves and others 'at risk'. The warning came as police look into how a suspected car thief was 'detained'But the group have since hit back at the allegations saying volunteers have been involved in a an 'endless list' of positive incidents, including helping to save a man's life when he was found collapsed in sub-zero conditions.

Noah Beck and Paris Brosnan are among the “New Rulers.”

Justin Bieber’s fans in Paris got a little out of control on Tuesday.

Wigan Council, believes all three options would have serious consequences for Wigan Borough.  Hitting out at the proposals, he said: “Greater Manchester rail passengers have been experiencing poor performance for too long.“Alternative solutions, such as improved infrastructure, must be explored before passengers are further penalised with reduced levels of service.“The taskforce was supposed to recommend improvements to rail services, not make an already poor service worse."If approved, these

direct to your inboxBus and taxi drivers and teachers over the age of 50 should be given Covid jabs at the half-empty mass vaccination centre at the Etihad, say local leaders.Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, has repeated calls on the government to give local authorities greater flexibility over how to use spare capacity at the site.Covid jabs are said to be ‘sitting in fridges’ as people belonging to the four groups on the government's vaccine priority list are waiting to be called

straight to your inboxPep Guardiola has gone strong for Manchester City's Champions League last-16 first leg against Borussia Monchengladbach.City are in Hungary for the away leg as Germany have Covid-19 restrictions in place, but away goals will still count for any scored by the Blues.

Charges stemming from a November arrest have been dropped against Bruce Springsteen.

direct to your inboxLatest Covid-19 figures reveal Tameside is one of only 13 areas in England where rates have gone up in the last week.It is one of just three areas in the north west region to show an increasing trend in infection rates - alongside Copeland in western Cumbria and the South Lakes.The percentage change in cases is reported week-on-week, not day-by-day.The latest rates, published by Public Health England on Thursday, are for the week ending February 14, and the percentage change

Edgeley, Stockport.

direct to your inboxHealth chiefs are growing increasingly concerned that Covid-19 cases in Greater Manchester are not falling as quickly as in other parts of the country - and fear the region could face being locked down for even longer.One director of public health has warned there continues to be a ‘reservoir’ of coronavirus circulating in the community, which is keeping infection rates high.As of Wednesday, all 10 Greater Manchester boroughs recorded an infection rate higher than the England

Katie Price and Carl Woods have been defended by police after they were accused of breaking lockdown rules with a Valentine’s Day trip. Katie, 42, and Carl, 32, were criticised for travelling to a luxury cabin in Shropshire over the weekend but have insisted that while they “don’t condone” the trip the couple were not “found to have broken the regulations”.

direct to your inboxCoronavirus infections are falling across the majority of Greater Manchester.But as the latest covid heat map shows, there are big variations in the number of infections, from borough to borough and often with towns themselves. An interactive map shows the number of positive Covid test results in each neighbourhood across the country using Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.

Rick Rubin has been hit with a $1,000 (£724) fine after breaking Hawaii’s Covid-19 quarantine rules.Local newspaper The Garden Island claims Rubin has already paid the fine after making an online appearance in court on February 9.

first discovered in the South East just before Christmas - has now become the most common variant in Bolton, accounting for more than 85 per cent of positive tests.

Lunatic At Large will be adapted by producers Bruce Hendricks and Galen Walker, who have optioned the rights to the filmmaker’s archival project, Variety reports.Three film stories were found in Kubrick’s library after he died in 1999, and Lunatic is the first to be revived.The film has been described as a “film-noir thriller” similar to other projects involving a collaboration between Kubrick and his frequent screenwriting collaborator Jim Thompson.There are no plot details or casting